Urgent Care Practitioner

Are you passionate about providing a service to meet the needs of people, carers and their families?

Do you value working positively, respectfully and collaboratively?

If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you

We're looking for Band 6 Urgent Care Practitioners to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and work with us to develop a new and innovative Urgent Care Hub.

Our Urgent Care Hub is a collaboration of our CRHTT & Haven team working together and across the urgent care service at Sussex Partnership. These services are integral to our Urgent Care Pathway and ensure people presenting to acute mental health services receive a compassionate, person-centred assessment and timely care plan whether this occurs in The Haven or with CRHTT in the person’s home.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

This is an exciting and dynamic role that offers the opportunity for development and implementation of high-quality services. A typical day in this role would involve working with The Haven, the acute hospital and community teams to support people in a mental health crisis.

Utilising your excellent clinical skills and judgement to assess individual needs and provide robust risk management planning

Demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and supportive discharge planning.

Work compassionately and creatively to identify therapeutic and evidence-based outcomes and care plans for people who are experiencing a crisis in their mental health

Work closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate and promote the safety and the well-being of service users and their families/carers.

Work collaboratively across the urgent care services being responsible for supportive discharge assessments and participating in multi-agency meetings.

We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-produced wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.

Mental Healthcare should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working
- no take out, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

**Your benefits**:
Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team

Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development

Free parking on-site

Access to a host of discount schemes

A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC

Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

Excellent NHS Pension

A ‘Golden Hello’ or relocation package up to £2,000 (see attached documentation for T&C’s

**REQUIREMENTS**:
In order to be a successful Urgent Care Practitioner in our team, you must:
Be a Registered Nurse with current registration (Adult/Mental Health/LD or equivalent) appropriate to the job role

Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group

Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group

Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

**It would be advantageous is you have**:
Previous experience working in acute services, home treatment teams or Liaison Psychiatry.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

As our Coastal Urgent Care Pathway moves towards CORE 24 standards, the post holder may need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service which could include working unsociable hours within a 24/7 service.

Working unsocial hours does bring a salary increase, in line with Agenda for Change guidelines.

If you are looking for a role where you can use the experience you have gathered to make a real and tangible difference to a new and developing service, then this is the job for you We would particularly welcome applicants who have an interest in learning disability, autism & dual diagnosis.